jesus could not have existed, page-353

That's fine bowral, even if we do not agree it really depends on who has the right material and what makes sense or not and how that material is correct cause when history of the past is brought to our attention, how can we establish it to be entirely correct? So what are the standards of approval of such material?
There was in the past a self - evident habit of the ancient historians to paraphrase and even more rarely to quote a document. As per example,Thucydides notoriously failed on many occasions to make any reference to documents in his statement of method and at times he was essentially irrelevant to his history. So bowral, it is not always exact what we preach as most comes from second hand sources